getting started

We are all official interns now, with badges to prove it and office space - so far my office space is a tiny desk with nothing in or on it, but it's still office space. In addition to horror stories about how we'll all get robbed, the previous interns have also been telling us horror stories about how we'll never get a house, because they are all staying extra time and are still occupying all the houses. We panicked a bit and then decided to prove them wrong and went madly looking at houses last night (our first day at work). A group of four of us visited 3 of them and then collapsed in a heap (well, actually, went out to Maasai Camp restaurantish place for dinner and then played cards). We chose a house far enough out to be away from work and to give us a chance to walk in real Africa rather than being stuck in the dusty, crowded downtown all the time. It's a bit huge and spartan - cement floors, five bedrooms, huge kitchen and dining room. More details about housing fun once we are settled in and making it home :-)